Spoke-tightener.



J. L ZANE.

SPOKE TIGHTENER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1907.

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- Affomey IMAM:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES L. ZANE, OF PULASKI, IOWA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO JOEL W. HUNT, OF

PULASKI, 'IOWA.

SPOKE-TIGHTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

zen of the United States, residing at Pulaski,

in the county of Davis andState of Iowa,

have invented certain new and useful Im-- 1grovements in Spoke-Tighteners; and I do ereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

This invention relates to devices for tightening the spokes in the fellies of wheels after the wheel has been in use; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view artly in section showing portions of a wheel telly, tire and two spokes. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of one bushing. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same.

A is a portion of a wheel felly.

B are ortions of the spokes the end portions 1) 0% which are fitted into holes in the telly in any approved manner.

C is a portion of the tire.

D is a bushing formed of a trough-shaped piece of metal. These bushings are stamped out of thin sheet metal and are made of different sizes and widths to suit different wheels. When the spoke has become loose the tire is removed and one of these bushings is driven into the space between the end portion I) of the spoke and the hole in the felly. When all the spokes which require to be tightened have been treated in this manner, the tire is replaced so that the bushings-are retained in position, as the shoulder 12 on the spoke prevents them from slidin out of the holes on the other side of the fel y from the tire.

What I claim is:

The combination, with a wheel felly provided with a tenon hole, of a s oke having a shoulder which bears against t e felly and a tenon which engages with the said hole,- a tightener comprising a trough-shaped plate of thin sheet metal of the same thickness all over and of the same length as the said hole, and a tire which retains the said tightener in the said hole at any desired point around the said tenon.

In testimony whereof I have afiiXed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

, JAMES L. ZANE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM T. STEVIG, C. C. KITTERMAN. 

